Collection Information
Size: 0.4 Linear feet
Summary: The East Side Gallery records measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1961 to 1970. The small collection sheds light on the gallery through correspondence, exhibition announcements, catalogs, and flyers, photographs, press releases, clippings, and two artist resumes.
Biographical/Historical Note
The East Side Gallery was founded in New York City by Mark Freeman in 1961. Located on 37th Street, the gallery showed a variety of painters, sculptors, and graphic artists. Artists exhibited at the gallery include Jan Gary, Willam D. Gorman, Luis Lujan, Gail Paradise, Maria Szeni, Linda Cross, and the gallery founder himself, Mark Freeman. The gallery was open seven days a week until it closed in 1970.
Provenance
The collection was donated in 1976 by gallery founder and director Mark Freeman.
Language Note
English .
Funding Note
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
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